Currently a lot of people are self isolating or spending large amounts of time at home due to COVID-19. I suspect we will see a lot of services offering extended free trials and other freebies and my aim is to keep this page updated with those. One resource that isn’t listed below is your local library, a lot of these give free access online to things like movies, books & magazines. Please contribute additional resources in the comments below.
Art
- A number of museums can be viewed online.
- Art Institute of Chicago has put 44,000 works of art online
- Colorourcollections. Free coloring content from participating libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world using materials from their collections.
- New York Metropolitan Opera. Free shows at 7:30PM from 3/16 until 3/22. Philadelphia Orchestra might be doing something similar
- Netherlands Bach Society
- Vienna Opera
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Bluprint: Free unlimited access
Education
School age:
- ABC Mouse. Use promo code SCHOOL7771:
- Early Learning Academy (Preschool Through 2nd Grade)
- Reading IQ: (Preschool through 6th Grade)
- Academic Adventures:Â (3rd Grade through 8th Grade) Free
- Scholastic is offering ‘learn at home’, free daily courses for children.
- CommonLit. Has 2,000 high quality free reading passages for grads 3-12.
- Modern States. Offers Freshman year for free. Reader @superwendel was able to use it for some early Gen Ed requirements.
- Storyline Online.
- Huge list of other resources
- Cambridge text books free until end of May
- Audible offering free audiobooks, no account required.
- Rosetta stone: 3 months free for students
Other:
- 450 Ivy League courses
- Audiobooks from the public domain
- Khan Academy. Massive learning resource useful for all ages.
- Scribd. Free 30 day trial
Entertainment
- Amazon Music HD – 90 Days Free (Or Free Upgrade). New users only
- [YMMV] Amazon Kindle Unlimited: 2 Months For Free for New & Previous Members
- Westworld season one is free on AppleTV app
- Free iOS and Android Moog and Korg Synth Apps
- Flight Unlimited Las Vegas (flight simulator)
- Criterion Channel free 14 day trial
Has ABC Mouse stopped their free membership? It’s prompting my kids to login (and I forgot what password I used!).
Never mind. Found the password and it let me in. False alarm.
My local library still has free wifi even though it’s closed
Safety-At-Sea Video Series Free to the Public
Watch a new video every Friday on Facebook or YouTube.
Created by the Storm Trysail Foundation, the Offshore Safety-At-Sea Video Series serves as a resource for all sailors. Normally, reserved for our seminar participants only, the Storm Trysail Club is releasing a video each week for sailors to enjoy and learn while they are self-quarantining.
New video premieres every Friday at 9am EDT. The first Man Overboard Recovery has already reached over 5,000 views on Facebook.
Other videos to come:
– Understanding Weather
– Using Safety Equipment
– Shipboard Firefighting Strategies
– Emergency Steering
– And more…
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCDY9g7zOvD4dMPEtSuf6seA
https://m.facebook.com/StormTrysailClub/
great resource thanks
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-theatre-webber/the-shows-must-go-on-lloyd-webber-musicals-to-be-aired-for-free-idUSKBN21K2ET Starting Apr 3rd (https://www.youtube.com/theshowsmustgoon)
Audible has now included free audiobook for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Free marine weather webinar
“For the next 72-hours, the ASA is gifting our Marine Weather Forecasting 101 webinar to those of you who are required to stay home – so take advantage of our generoisty and learn something new about sailing!”
https://learn.asa.com/p/marine-weather-101/
Use code SEABREEZE
Offer ends at 11:55pm on Saturday March 28th, 2020
I’m not positive but guessing that is Pacific time since ASA is based out of CA.
Thanks for this. 13:00 Pacific Time 3/28 and it is still available. I know just the person for it.
Tell that person about the weekly free Storm Trysail safety at sea video I posted up today.
New York Philharmonic is also offering free access to its digital content:
https://nyphil.org/playson
This may be standard of them and not a specialty thing, but if you’re a film aficionado, the Criterion Collection is offering a free 2-week trial (does require credit card information and to cancel before being billed):
https://www.criterionchannel.com/checkout/subscribe/purchase
You’ve posted about it before, but the monthly free FandangoNow movie for Sprint customers might be a good addition to the list.
ABC Mouse code not working. “This code is intended for use in another school district. Please reach out to your school for the appropriate code”